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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography Capote, Truman 1924-1984 Dating (Social customs) New York (State) New York Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 Man-woman relationships New York (State) New York Manners and customs New York (N.Y.) Biography New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century New York (State) New York Sex customs New York (State) New YorkMiller, Donald L.
Summary: An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 MILGolenbock, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/HarperCollins 2008
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Summary: "A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: A memoir in graphic novel form. Lemelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, describes his experiences growing up in Brooklyn, NY in the 1950's and 1960's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 LEMGopnik, Adam
Summary: "From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal forNew York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOPNIK, ADAM GOPYandolino, Frank.
Summary: "Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture movement alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Festival of 1969. This memoir is an account of his life as a hippie, art director, entrepreneur, manager, and screenwriter (as well as various other hats he wore in the creative industry.)"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 YANBushnell, Candace.
Summary: A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at sex clubs, suburban sexuality, celebrity affairs, and other topics
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1996
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Summary: From the pioneering New York Times bestselling author who brought us Sex and the City comes a wry, witty, and wise look at sex, dating and friendship in New York City after fifty. Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.709747Shulman, Robin.
Summary: Traces the experiences of New Yorkers who grow and produce food in bustling city environments, placing urban food production in a context of hundreds of years of history to explain the changing abilities of cities to feed people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 SHUChurchwell, Sarah Bartlett
Summary: An investigation into the inspiration behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece traces his parties and quarrels at the side of Zelda amid the scandals of 1922 before a double murder in New Jersey set the stage for what was to become an American classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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Summary: "'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) -- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote -- and at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021